Example Sentences

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Was brillick in the birar toads all mindsy toads and beware the jabberwock son, i don’t even know what you’re saying lol!

From BusinessWeek • Aug. 9, 2012

The jabberwock he is hunting, a college fraternity, last seen some years ago at Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol .

From Time Magazine Archive

Truth to tell, neither of them experienced anything in the shape of an overwhelming desire to "slay the jabberwock," as Owen put it.

From With Trapper Jim in the North Woods by Leslie, Lawrence J.

Perhaps the philologists of the future may theorise as sapiently as to the origin of jabberwock and bandersnatch.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

There's no Egyptian crock, or painted jabberwock, but by the wall there stands a tall and loud six-dollar clock.

From Rippling Rhymes by Mason, Walt